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US stocks rallied as Americans head to the polls in what is expected to be an election that gives Republicans control of the House. It might take longer than election night to get a final conclusion on the Senate. The Senate is up for grabs as there are five races (Georgia, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada, and Arizona) that polls suggest are a toss-up. There is a chance that we won’t find out the Senate result for weeks if the Georgia seat requires a runoff election.
43 million Americans voted early and today’s turnout is expected to be strong as a plethora of issues are motivating Americans to cast their ballot. We might not get all the results tonight but it seems Republicans have a very good shot at gaining control of the House and that could be confirmed early tomorrow morning.
At the Save America rally in Vandalia, Ohio, former President Trump announced he will be making a “big announcement” on November 15th. It is widely expected that he will launch his 2024 presidential campaign. A number of prominent Republicans do not support another Trump ticket, with many preferring Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. It is a long time before Republicans have their candidate but regardless if it is Trump or Desantis, it seems they have a good chance in 2024.
FX
The dollar got crushed today as a short-covering move accelerated as investors embraced risk appetite ahead of the midterm elections and Thursday’s pivotal inflation report. The dollar fell to a six-week low as Treasury yields declined.
Cryptos take a tumble
Cryptos are tumbling after a liquidity crunch for FTX led to their sale to a top competitor. Today is a bad day in crypto. Binance had to step in to save Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange. SBF has been the white night during this crypto winter and a liquidity crunch for him has triggered a wave of uneasiness across the cryptoverse. Binance will buy FTX.com, which is the non-US unit that generates the lion’s share of revenue. Financial terms were not disclosed.
This is a major setback for many investors in cryptos who viewed SBF as a white knight and one of the leaders in the space that was supposed to thrive once we got beyond this crypto winter. Many crypto companies will likely be vulnerable to further selling pressure here given the current macro backdrop but that probably won’t deter a lot of the institutional money that is still coming in or is locked into the space.
This article is for general information purposes only. It is not investment advice or a solution to buy or sell securities. Opinions are the authors; not necessarily that of OANDA Corporation or any of its affiliates, subsidiaries, officers or directors. Leveraged trading is high risk and not suitable for all. You could lose all of your deposited funds.
With more than 20 years’ trading experience, Ed Moya is a senior market analyst with OANDA, producing up-to-the-minute intermarket analysis, coverage of geopolitical events, central bank policies and market reaction to corporate news. His particular expertise lies across a wide range of asset classes including FX, commodities, fixed income, stocks and cryptocurrencies.
Over the course of his career, Ed has worked with some of the leading forex brokerages, research teams and news departments on Wall Street including Global Forex Trading, FX Solutions and Trading Advantage. Most recently he worked with TradeTheNews.com, where he provided market analysis on economic data and corporate news.
Based in New York, Ed is a regular guest on several major financial television networks including CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Yahoo! Finance Live, Fox Business and Sky TV. His views are trusted by the world’s most renowned global newswires including Reuters, Bloomberg and the Associated Press, and he is regularly quoted in leading publications such as MSN, MarketWatch, Forbes, Breitbart, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Ed holds a BA in Economics from Rutgers University.
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